V2 records news – Melody’s Echo Chamber Announces New Album "Unclouded"
OUT 5 DECEMBER 2025
"IN THE STARS"
17 April Live @ Botanique, Brusse
Nov 25 Melody's Echo Chamber - Eyes Closed (Official Audio)
Oct 25 Melody's Echo Chamber - In The Stars (Visualiser)
Melody's Echo Chamber, aka French musician Melody Prochet, announces her fourth studio album, Unclouded - due for release on December 5th via Domino.
Nov 25
Melody's Echo Chamber releases new single "Eyes Closed" from her fourth studio album Unclouded – due out December 5th via Domino.
Featuring propulsive breakbeats from British drummer Malcolm Catto, collaborator with Madlib and DJ Shadow, and the powerhouse behind The Heliocentrics, "Eyes Closed" travels from psych and soul to the edges of krautrock. It is perhaps the wildest and most playful track on Unclouded, reminiscent of Melody's love for the avant-garde and her more artistic and sculptural approach to production.
"My eyes are closed not in denial, but in devotion—to vibrant memories, to the complexity of human feelings, to seeing more deeply," says Melody. "It's also driven by a resilient aesthetic that emphasizes the beauty of transient things and the bittersweet feeling of their impermanence."
Oct 25
Unclouded sees Melody's Echo Chamber embarking on a life-affirming new chapter. The title of the album was lifted from a quote from the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, about achieving equilibrium: "You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side"
Metaphorical dark skies have given way to sunshine... at least for now. "I used to feel nostalgic growing into adulthood," Melody says, "but now that I understand that concept of impermanence, I don't take it as personally anymore." That brighter outlook is reflected in the record's delectable grooves as much as its more earthbound lyrics - the instinct to escape has been replaced by a sense of being with nature in the present.
The announcement arrives alongside the release of psych soul new single "In The Stars"; it's a song of perfect balances, from the close harmonies from Melody to the scintillating interaction between the guitar and strings. It arrives alongside a dreamy and hazy video by long term collaborator, Diane Sagnier.
"The music I create unusually inhabits the liminal zone between realism and fables," says Melody. "But the more experience I have of living, the deeper I love life and the less I need to escape. If my heart still belongs to the blue hour, it also feels like I've gathered upall the pieces of myself that were scattered everywhere and glued them together with gold like Japanese kintsugi." (Kintsugi is a Japanese art where broken pottery is put back together with gold or silver lacquer).
Unclouded's impressive cast includes Swedish maestro Sven Wunder (Danny Brown) who co-produced the record and contributed to the writing, bringing his unique sonic palette to the richly-textured canvas; Josefin Runsteen on strings, who brings her avant-garde smarts to the tableau; Dina Ögon's Daniel Ögen on guitar and Love Orsan on bass who Melody describes as "masters of the velvet groove"; British drummer Malcolm Catto, collaborator with Madlib and DJ Shadow, and the powerhouse behind The Heliocentrics; frequent collaborator Reine Fiske (of Dungen) who laid down some stunning, Johnny Marr-esque guitar parts that can be found throughout the record.
Last but not least, Leon Michels - the Wu-Tang, The Carters, Norah Jones and Clairo collaborator - worked with Melody on the album's closer and recently released single "Daisy", a sparkling pop song plucked from the ether. El Michels Affair's Grammy-winning mixer Jens Jungkurth, was drafted in to bring everything to life.
Unclouded is brimming with the positive energy that propelled Prochet across the world on Melody Echo Chamber's lauded "comeback" tour of 2022. On returning to the Alps of High Provence, she began writing in earnest. What inspired her? "My deeper love for the living experience," she says. "I still get ups and downs but I'm faster at getting back to more harmonious feelings, enjoying the beauty of transient things and the bittersweet feeling of their impermanence."
Unclouded is an album that celebrates the present moment, whatever state we find ourselves in.
Tracklisting:
17th April – Botanique, Orangerie, Brussels, BE
22nd April – L'Aéronef, Lille, FR
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